Pastor's Tantra

Late at night, the waxing gibbous moon almost submerged into the earth again. The sky has turned slightly white.

The clock in Aiwass's room swung the pendulum rhythmically, and the hands on it already pointed to four-twenty in the morning.

But he was still sitting in his wheelchair like a sculpture, flipping through the "Shepherd's Tantra" motionless.

Two strange purple-red blood tears kept slipping from the corners of Aiwass' eyes, who was sitting at the table as if he had lost his soul, and fell on the page of the book. Then he sank directly into it and was absorbed by it.

Aiwass looked at the secrets in the book with fascination.

The skin on his face turned red, and the blood vessels on his forehead and forearms bulged visibly. The blood vessels that should have been cyan revealed dark purple spider web patterns.

Even though it was winter, it was still warm in Aiwass' room. But along with Aiwass's deep and heavy breathing, pale white high-heat mist continued to exhale from his mouth. Occasionally, some sparks will burst out during a low cough.

It wasn't until early in the morning when birds chirped outside that Aiwass woke up from a dream.

His eyes became clear again, and the purple lines on his face slowly retracted.

At this time, he had unknowingly turned to the end of this thin black leather book. That knowledge has been deeply engraved in Aiwass's memory, and he can remember it clearly the moment he closes his eyes. The words even became gleaming.

"...It's actually something like this."

Aiwass' expression was solemn and he murmured in a low voice.

This black tantric book tells about a mysterious skill called "pastoral care".

It was a mysterious skill that existed more than a thousand years ago before the concept of "profession" existed.

At that time, almost all extraordinary beings were walking on multiple paths at the same time. Because at that time, the extraordinary common sense of "minimizing the number of roads you delve into at the same time as much as possible" had not yet been developed.

Walking on multiple paths at the same time not only easily drives people crazy and makes progress on each path difficult, but is also very detrimental to inheritance. In that environment, the mysterious skills that each extraordinary person has spent his entire life developing and mastering must be passed on to successors who are completely consistent with his own personality, hobbies, and essence.

Therefore, in ancient times, extraordinary beings were very few in human society. And none of their extraordinary powers are strong enough.

Because there is no inheritance system, almost all extraordinary people cannot be passed down to three generations. And the depth that each person can advance on the road is very limited by relying solely on their own exploration.

It was not until about the fourth or fifth centuries that the concept of "profession" gradually emerged. Extraordinaries use various cultivation methods to gradually make their personalities pure and extreme, and avoid paths they do not intend to enter. At the same time, be careful not to contaminate the essence of your personality. On the premise of maintaining your original intention, try to move closer to the safe path that has been explored by our ancestors.

The principles of the Nine Paths are actually very vague. Their boundaries overlap and are constantly changing.

For example, the changes in the path of "beauty" related to art are the most obvious. Almost every few hundred years, people's understanding of "beauty" changes. Many arts that were previously considered unfashionable have become "ancient trends" after decades or hundreds of years.

But if you are an extraordinary person without guidance, you can easily go astray.

Because all ordinary people with mental health must meet the guidelines of multiple paths at the same time.

For example, it is possible for wild extraordinary people on the path of devotion to discover the art of lighting. But if they don’t know that the core principle of the path of devotion is “altruism”, they will easily take the path of “using their own healing abilities to gain the right to speak”. For example, becoming the leader of a small sect.

Then it is easy to unknowingly embark on the path of authoritarianism.

Similarly, if you are too paranoid about the truth, or think that you are smarter and more talented than ordinary people, you will embark on the path of wisdom that pursues the truth.

If you are too obsessed with becoming a pope or a bishop and are eager for promotion within the church system, you have already embarked on the road to transcendence.

It would be better if you could walk on two paths at the same time. But everyone's mental power and energy are limited, and humans are forgetful.

If you completely forget your original intention and become a completely different person from your original self...then the power that originally came from the path of devotion will continue to weaken and disappear.

The so-called "professional" inheritance, the most important inheritance is the "bottom line of the path." Even if the scope of the path is vague, its core must be clear. Then don't test the boundaries of the path, only adhere to the core principles, and only use the safest part of the power. In this way, you can obtain relatively pure power of the path.

Even if you are a priest who is eager for promotion, or you are seeking wealth and power, as long as you remember that the core principle of the path of devotion is "altruism", you will not lose the priest professional level because of this.

With the "career" system in place, extraordinary knowledge can be formally passed on. From then until now, the extraordinary beings have generally become stronger and stronger.

But this does not mean that ancient mysterious skills are weak.

Almost every mysterious skill in the pre-professional era is a legacy left by the strong men of the past.

For example, the "Shepherd Tantra" obtained by Aiwass is a mysterious skill carved from the memory of a man called "Shepherd".

This skill requires the adaptability of both the path of devotion and the path of transcendence, and requires that the two paths must be as balanced as possible - the "art of shepherding" can only be used when the depth of the two paths is consistent.

When Aiwass' priest profession is advanced, he will be temporarily unavailable until the demonologist is advanced.

And this mysterious skill can be called an evil art——

Its basic principle is "to nourish the intangible with the tangible, and to nourish the tangible with the intangible".

Overall, it tells the story of a mysterious technique that can make anyone stronger...

After opening the book, Aiwass fell into a hallucination. From the text, he vaguely saw a hooded man in black robes, feeding weak demons with his own flesh and blood.

He did not sign a contract with the devil, but simply used his flesh and blood to lure the devil to follow him. It's like keeping a pet or herding cattle and sheep. These weak demons were raised by him and became stronger and stronger.

As a result, he became skinny and covered in scars.

After that, Aiwass saw someone kneeling in front of the man in black robe, praying for something.

The man used a special technique to infuse the demon's invisible power into the supplicant's body. In a burst of fire, it underwent drastic changes and gained strength.

So the supplicant becomes the follower of the man. He killed many people and offered them as sacrifices to more and more demons. After he became weak, he was ruthlessly thrown to a new batch of demons as blood food.

With repeated use in this way, the demons gradually become stronger and more numerous. After that, he used the same secret method to inject these demons into other power-hungry followers.

In this way, he obtained an evil army of demon-possessed people.

The Legion collected all kinds of secret treasures and seized all kinds of wealth for him. The man who grew thinner began to cultivate more and more phantoms. At this time, the demons were no longer the only ones following him. Even light-attributed phantoms appeared beside him.

They have been raised by men since childhood. Without signing a contract, he is willing to accept the man's control and share part of his power with others.

Under the operation of the man in black robe, there are more and more followers around him, and they are getting stronger and stronger.

They snowballed and formed a terrifying force in a short period of time. And attracted encirclement and suppression from all parties.

In the end, when he was surrounded and suppressed by the coalition forces, he sacrificed his followers as food and fed them to the powerful phantoms through pastoral techniques.

Anyone who has received his pastoral care is powerless to resist the forced sacrifice of pastoral care.

They were used as food to summon more powerful phantoms.

Aiwass saw clearly in the vision.

Although it is just a silhouette, there is no doubt that it is the "Falling Sky Division" that only came and was defeated in version 0!

The man in black robe's plan had an accident at the last moment - he tried to inject the power of Fallen Sky Division into his body using the technique of shepherding.

——But unexpectedly, the shepherding technique suddenly failed at this moment.

He himself was unable to properly contain the power of Fallen Sky Division. The best opportunity was missed.

Without using the pastoral method that can extract the essence of the phantom without damaging its essence, his behavior became to steal the essence of the phantom - the furious Fallen Sky Division backhanded him and severely wounded him, and he was killed by the coalition assassins because of this. Killed.

The evil legacy of the man known as the "Shepherd" has been ended.

"...Because when he tried to inject the power he grabbed into his body, he had already deviated from the path of dedication."

Aiwass sighed.

He really got this name right.

Use humans as sacrifices to feed the phantoms, and then extract power from the phantoms, or directly sacrifice the entire phantoms and feed them to humans.

Just like a real pastor.

Use the ubiquitous grass to graze cattle and sheep, and then obtain milk and meat from the cattle and sheep.

That grass is mortal.

Cows and sheep are phantoms.

Such a bad metaphor.

——If the endless grass is not regarded as the price, "herding" cattle and sheep will be a secret skill made out of nothing.